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America

Shaped by the State Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century

Cebul Brent, Geismer Lily, Williams Mason B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226596327, ISBN: HB: 9780226596297, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with s...

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Ku Klux Kulture America and the Klan in the 1920s

Harcourt Felix

ISBN: PB: 9780226637938, ISBN: HB: 9780226376158, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In "Ku Klux Kulture", Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux...

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America

Political Science

Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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General

America

Browning of the New South

Jones Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226600987, ISBN: HB: 9780226600840, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 table

Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlement mean that these studies no longer paint the whole picture. Many Latino newcomers are flocking to pl...

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America

Conspiracies of Conspiracies How Delusions Have Overrun America

Konda Thomas Milan

ISBN: HB: 9780226585765, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion –...

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Political Science

America

Back Channel American Diplomacy in a Disordered World

Burns William J.

ISBN: HB: 9781787381230, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time – from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of re...

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Europe

America

Hot Protestants A History of Puritanism in England and America

Winship Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126280, Yale University Press, February 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world....

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Business & Economics

Broken Bargain Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street

Day Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300223323, Yale University Press, February 2019
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping a...

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Military

America

Thunder in the Harbor Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the American Civil War

Mackowski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781611211856, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2019
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 black&white illus., 4 maps

At 4:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire. Thirty-four hours later, with their supplies running low but their honor satisfied, Federal forces lowered their tattered flag. The only casualty – an accidental death – came...

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America

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

Burnard Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226639246, ISBN: HB: 9780226286105, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 18 tables

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men – men w...

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